Sarah Ford | May 27, 2014
The Preservation Champion You Might Not Have Heard Of: Mary B. Talbert
In 1917, readers ofÌýÌýmagazine, the official publication of theÌýÌý(NAACP), would have come across a powerful call to action, written by one Mrs. Mary B. Talbert.
Talbert, an educator, civil rights activist,Ìýand then-president of theÌýÌý(NACWC) had turned her eyes to Cedar Hill, the Washington, D.C., home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
The NACWC, at its biennial meeting just months earlier, had created a committee to consider the possibility of assisting the trustees of theÌý(FDMHA) with the care of the house and the legacy Douglass left behind.
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